简介:TobuildarapidandaccuratemethodforgreenhousevegetablelandinformationextractionusinganindexmodelderivedfromTMdigitaldataofQingzhouCity,ShandongProvince,basedonasystematicanalysisofthespectralcharacteristicsofdifferentlandusetypesinthestudyarea,asubsetoftheimagewasfirstmadetoeliminatethemountainousregionnotassociatedwithvegetabledistribution,andthenwaterbodypixelsweremasked.WiththistheV1indexmodelforgreenhousevegetablelandextractionwasdeveloped.TheindexmodelindicatedgreenhousevegetablelandforQingzhouinApril2002wasconcentratedinthesoutheastandaroundruralresidentialareas.Fielddatausedforanaccuracyevaluationshowedthatgreenhousehectaresdeterminedwithremotesensingwere95.9%accurate,andaccuracyforthespatialdistributionofgreenhousevegetablelandcrosscheckedwitharandomsamplewas96.3%.Therefore,thisapproachprovidedaneffectivemethodforgreenhousevegetablelandinformationextractionandhaspotentialsignificanceformanagementofgreenhousevegetableproductioninthestudyarea,aswellasNorthChina.
简介:WemappedtheforestcoverofKhadimnagarNationalPark(KNP)ofSylhetForestDivisionandestimatedforestchangeoveraperiodof22years(1988-2010)usingLandsatTMimagesandotherGISdata.SupervisedclassificationandNormalizedDifferenceVegetationIndex(NDVI)imageclassificationapproacheswereappliedtotheimagestoproducethreecoverclasses,viz.denseforest,mediumdenseforest,andbareland.Thechangemapwasproducedbydifferencingclassifiedimageriesof1988and2010asbeforeimageandafterimage,respectively,inERDASIMAGINE.Errormatrixandkappastatisticswereusedtoassesstheaccuracyoftheproducedmaps.Overallmapaccuraciesresultingfromsupervisedclassificationof1988and2010imagerieswere84.6%(Kappa0.75)and87.5%(Kappa0.80),respectively.Forestcoverstatisticsresultingfromsupervisedclassificationshowedthatdenseforestandbarelanddeclinedfrom526ha(67%)to417ha(59%)and105ha(13%)to8ha(1%),respectively,whereasmediumdenseforestincreasedfrom155ha(20%)to317ha(40%).ForestcoverchangestatisticsderivedfromNDVIclassificationshowedthatdenseforestdeclinedfrom525ha(67%)to421ha(54%)whilemediumdenseforestincreasedfrom253ha(32%)to356ha(45%).BothsupervisedandNDVIclassificationapproachesshowedsimilartrendsofforestchange,i.e.decreaseofdenseforestandincreaseofmediumdenseforest,whichindicatesdenseforesthasbeenconvertedtomediumdenseforest.Areaofbarelandwasunchanged.Illicitfelling,encroachment,andsettlementnearforestscausedthedenseforestdeclinewhileshortandlongrotationplantationsraisedinvariousyearscausedtheincreaseinareaofmediumdenseforest.ProtectivemeasuresshouldbeundertakentocheckfurtherdegradationofforestatKNP.